The CEC series and PZ series were early home computers that were locally produced in China. Most of these machines were BASIC machines and competed with Laser 310s (more high quality Hong Kong made machines) and other imported Japanese and American machines that were rarer.
Sources: Googleing, 闲鱼
This is a very nice piece of Chinese computer history. It is a wiped SDHS laptop that was in circulation in that company. These are almost impossible to find inside of China let alone outside.
These are just a few of the many tcl crt TVs that do 100% exist.
My collection of IBM thinkpads. Most of these are special Chinese versions that were made in Japan or other surrounding places then shipped in. Models:
X41T (tablet) running XP tablet version.
A30 running Windows XP pro bootleg (CHAN bootleg)
R51 running clean Windows XP IBM oem version
R52 running clean windows XP Chinese pro
R40: dead
T40 running Windows XP home Chinese version
“T60” 560X, was windows XP heavy customization before hdd death.
What sorta company is Sugar? Does anyone know anything about this?
The R52 has an extremely dim display and is bright for a split second when booted up at the start.
Windows XP on a MacBook. Steve would not approve.
So if nobody remembered, these are “new” “goodwill” crt s made for cctv purposes and recently I posted about this. Now, something changed, they released newer and more interesting products that are crt based. Cool. They also have the same shitty photoshopping in the adverts.
This is a “little spice” iPhone clone thing that has a battery themed around spice. This thing is terrible but very funny.
So there’s a slot 1 pentium II (they also had a slot 1 pentium iii as well), a normal ceramic pentium, a Cyrix MII gold plate ceramic cpu, a laptop intel i7 processor and a barely eligible for this subreddit, i7.
The screen has this blue tint and occasionally it blue screens with the shown errors, making me feel something is wrong with the RAM. Besides that it is very clean and works great. I’m hopeful that the blue scale of the lcd isn’t a GPU close to death indicator.
So I’m posting this here since I think people would like this. Then imma ask other subs for help on fixing this thing.
This is among the earliest mainland Chinese local affordable home computers and paved the way for the development of the famiclone education computer environment in the following years.
It was meant to link up to a tv a most home computers were and directly competed with Hong Kong Laser 310s Laser 200s and Taiwanese Apple II clones.
After receiving this in an attic, this thing had an already chance but I still want to ask for your opinion on the matter.
From digital dictionary’s with BASIC built in to Cassette players in the Y2K era to android learning tablets and tape to mp3 converters 文典星 has been up to doing things since the late 90s to modern day.
These sorts of dumb terminals were produced throughout the 80-90s. They were quite uncommon but mostly have the same basic design. Notable companies that made them would be 长城. They had special parts in them so they could process the Chinese language but were largely clones of western systems.
This was Chinas PC Cambrian explosion, this was the time when PCs became more common than ever before. (1990-2010). This was also the age China was rapidly modernizing and seemingly catching up with the rest of the world. These PCs are midrange, I’ve seen them before, they are very basic and besides the blue and beige color pallet are not very special, and honestly more generic nameless PCs were still more common. Of course these PCs would soon become Lenovo branded and sail for the international market. You can see an early Lenovo Legend rebrand pc on the 8th photo.
The 2nd 3rd 4th and 5th photo contains a very interesting one marketed with a nautilus shell on the box.
Sources: 闲鱼 and people I knows experience as well as physical units